“Crimes of the Future” Trailer Reveals David Cronenberg’s Sci-Fi Horror Starring Kristen Stewart & Léa Seydoux

David Cronenberg, the visionary director behind Eastern Promises, A History of Violence, and The Fly takes his time between projects, and when he launches a new film, you can be sure it won’t be anything like his last, and, it will be must-see viewing for all film lovers. This brings us to the first teaser for his latest film, Crimes of the Future, a sci-fi thriller with an insane cast that includes Léa Seydoux,...

A New “The Northman” Trailer Teases Robert Eggers’ Ripping Viking Epic

How good is Robert Eggers’ The Northman? Critics are raving that The Witch and The Lighthouse director has managed to top those two, wildly ambitious and singular films with his boldest, most brutal work yet. Tomris Laffly of the AV Club writes that “Eggers’ immersive approach and stylistic flair creates one wild, applause-worthy combat scene after another, reminding viewers why he’s one of the most unique visual artists working today.”...

“Everything Everywhere All At Once” Actress Stephanie Hsu on Landing the Role of a Lifetime

It’s very difficult to describe Everything Everywhere All At Once, the new genre-busting indie from writer/directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels. It’s a multiverse sci-fi brain twister, an action movie with Hong Kong-style fighting, and a moving family drama about a mother and daughter. It’s about existential dread, love lost and found, and, of course, the importance of paying your taxes correctly and on time. Michelle Yeoh is at her career-best as matriarch Evelyn Wang,...

“The Batman” Blu-ray Includes More Joker, Penguin, & Catwoman

Co-writer/director Matt Reeves’ The Batman only gave us a last-second tease of Barry Keoghan’s Joker, but you’ll be getting more of the scarred psychopath when the 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD release drops on May 24. (The digital release is a mere few days away, as The Batman comes to HBO Max on April 18.) The moment in question was actually revealed last month and has now become one of the more iconic deleted scenes in recent movie history...

Surprise! A Mysterious New David Lynch Project May Premiere at Cannes

Variety hits us with a big, thrilling scoop. According to two of their sources, there’s going to be a new David Lynch film—or something—coming to the Croisette this year, one that he shot without somehow alerting anyone in the media, and, starring Laura Dern (the size of her role is unknown) along with a few more Lynch regulars. This is a massive bit of film news—if Lightyear is indeed a feature film—as Lynch hasn’t debuted a new feature since Inland Empire way back in 2006,...

Epic New “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” Video Unleashes Marvel’s Phase 4

When director Sam Raimi boarded the Doctor Strange sequel In The Multiverse of Madness, excitement spread across the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The director of the first Spider-Man trilogy from the early aughts is a master at blending delirious action set pieces and a touch of darkness, delivering the kind of superhero cinematic experience that elevated the entire genre. A new featurette reveals just how much Raimi got to sink his teeth into In The Multiverse of Madness as Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is set to face not only his own demons (quite literally),...

Dueling Wizards Highlight Final “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” Trailer

We’re just a few days away from the premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbeldore, and a new trailer highlights the stakes. It’s going to take a team of wizards (and a Muggle) to take down the rising threat of Grindewald (Mads Mikkelsen) and his growing army of Muggle-hating wizards. The Secrets of Dumbledore boasts almost an Ocean’s Eleven vibe in that Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), acting as a magical Danny Ocean, assembles a team he hopes can stop Grindewald from starting an all-out war with the non-magical Muggle population...

“Morbius” Scoring Mixer Jason LaRocca on Sinking His Teeth Into Marvel’s Vampire Antihero

After suffering throughout his childhood from a rare blood disorder, Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) heads into the Costa Rican jungle and cuts his hand open, thereby trapping a swarm of vampire bats. The bats are the final key to the brilliant doctor’s cure, which, as we can guess by the fact that these particular bats are highly attracted to blood, means that anyone who takes said cure will themselves also come to be highly attracted to blood. Thus begins director Daniel Espinosa’s tale of Morbius,...

“Jurassic World: Dominion” Writer/Director Colin Trevorrow Teases Diabolical New Dinosaur

You could probably never guess where Jurassic World: Dominion writer/director Colin Trevorrow drew inspiration from for his the biggest, meanest new dinosaur. Trevorrow has revealed to Empire Magazine that there’s a new alpha predator on the prowl in Dominion and its name is the Giganotosaurus. In keeping with the Jurassic tradition of incorporating new dinos into each installment, Trevorrow has gone one better and drawn on some unusual inspiration for the Giganotosaurus,...

A New “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” Teaser Reveals Evil Doctor Strange’s Third Eye

A new Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness teaser, titled “Dreams,” hints at the mind-bending nightmare that director Sam Raimi has cooked up for MCU fans. The teaser, utilizing a cover of Roy Orbison’s deathless “In Dreams,” gives us a glimpse of the nightmare that Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) finds himself in, and highlights how much Raimi has infused the film with his special brand of horror-inflected madness. At the 47-second mark, you’ll see the Evil Doctor Strange (unleashed from the multiverse) and his third eye (or Eye of Agamotto to you Marvel-heads) opening on his forehead...

Behind-the-Scenes With Five Female Singaporean Creators

“The last three years were an eye-opener because of the pandemic,” said Michelle Chang, managing partner at Singapore-based Mochai Chai Laboratories. “We are the post-production house at the tail end. If the producers stop producing, we are dead. The good thing was my business partner Chai Yee Wei has the foresight of not putting all our eggs in one basket. He has built a digital restoration lab. As luck would have it, a lot of distributors came to us because streaming platforms were buying catalog content and they need to up-convert into a compatible format for the streamers...

“The Northman” Early Reviews Rave About Robert Eggers’ Ferociously Visceral Viking Epic

In a must-read profile of writer/director Robert Eggers by Sam Knight in The New Yorker, the visionary director of The Witch and The Lighthouse is very honest about the toll his latest, and by far biggest, film took on him. The Northman, which is being called the most realistic Viking movie ever made, is loosely based on “Hamlet,” which Shakespeare himself based on a Viking tale...

“The Lost City” Editor Craig Alpert on Finding Big Laughs With Sandra Bullock & Channing Tatum

The laugh-out-loud adventure comedy The Lost City, starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, found its way atop the box office. Directed by the Nee brothers Aaron and Adam, the punchy comedy delightfully entertains as Bullock plays a successful romance writer who has been kidnapped by an obsessed treasure hunter played by Daniel Radcliffe, who believes the world in her latest novel is real and wants her to help find it. It’s up to Tatum, the novel’s leading character and cover boy,...

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” Sets World-Record While Still Filming

Writer/director James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 isn’t even done filming, yet that hasn’t stopped it from breaking a world record. Gunn himself reported that the makeup effects studio Legacy Effects, which is hard at work helping Gunn populate his intergalactic menagerie, have confirmed that Vol. 3 has broken the world record for the most makeup appliances ever created for a single production. Legacy Effects knows their stuff—they’ve won Emmys and Oscars and worked on epic blockbusters,...

New “Top Gun: Maverick” Teaser Highlights Intense Aerial Action

How intense is the aerial action in Top Gun: Maverick? The Tom Cruise-led action-epic, which sees Cruise return to the role that made him an international superstar in 1986, deployed real Navy aviators and jets to capture the thrilling flying sequences. In a new teaser released by Paramount Pictures, some of that aerial insanity is on full display.

“Much like the first film, these are going to be real jets and real U.S. Naval aviators flying in these scenes,” Naval Air Forces spokesman Commander Ronald Flanders told The Credits back in 2018...

“NITRAM” Director/Producer Justin Kurzel Casts a Lens on a Shocking Tragedy

In 1996, Australia was rocked by a mass shooting in the small, peaceful community of Port Arthur, Tasmania. The horrific incident took the lives of 35 innocent people and injured 23, and remains among the country’s greatest national tragedies. 

Director-producer Justin Kurzel (True History of the Kelly Gang, The Snowtown Murders) reunites with screenwriter Shaun Grant to explore the events that led to the mass shooting in the IFC Films release,...

New “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” Teaser Reveals Colossal Villain

In a brief, thrilling new teaser for director Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, we get a peek at one of the colossal villains—or really, monsters—that Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his allies will be facing. At the 18-second mark, we see Wong (Benedict Wong) and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) facing off against a massive monster that has no doubt been unleashed from the multiverse.

In Raimi’s long-awaited return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (he directed the first Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire before Marvel Studios had created their vaunted MCU),...

How “Morbius” Production Designer Stefania Cella Creates a Brooding Vibe

Stefania Cella has suddenly become one of Marvel’s favorite production designers, more than happy to sink her teeth into Jared Leto’s much anticipated rogue scientist saga Morbius (opening April 1). She also designed the studio’s Moon Knight (March 30) and, at the moment, Cella’s in Atlanta working on Marvel’s much-anticipated Blade reboot. 

Immersing herself in comic book IP has been “challenging,” says Cella, who’s quick to acknowledge a complete lack of experience in the superhero genre when director Daniel Espinosa first approached her about working on Morbius...

Sharon Stone Will Play The Villain in DC’s “Blue Beetle”

The DC universe has just added another legend. Sharon Stone is joining DC’s upcoming Blue Beetle as the villain, The Hollywood Reporter confirms. The last time Stone ventured into a superhero film was another DC entry, in 2004’s Catwoman starring Halle Berry. In Blue Beetle, Stone will play a new character, Victoria Kord.

Blue Beetle will be led by Cobra Kai‘s Xolo Maridueña in the title role of the teenager Jaime Reyes who becomes a superhero after he comes into contact with alien armor...

Chatting With WarnerMedia’s Senior Vice President of Equity & Inclusion Karen Horne

Karen Horne has been working to amplify the voices of underrepresented communities for more or less her entire career. WarnerMedia’s Senior Vice President of Equity and Inclusion Programs has been creating results-oriented programs across a wide swath of the entertainment, sports, and news divisions for more than two decades. “I’ve always wanted to work in this field,” Horne says of her work. “Also, I’ve never had a plan B.”

The pipeline programs Horne has implemented at WarnerMedia since 2020 alone have been crucial,...